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The slow burn that made a northern lass a leading lady

Gina McKee doesn’t seem to mind throwing herself in at the deep end.

Playing Goneril, the eldest of three sisters in the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Shakespeare’s King Lear, which arrives in Glasgow tonight with Derek Jacobi in the title role, she doesn’t really have much choice.